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Frameworks

A framework is simply a tool that helps organize ideas in order to provide a foundation for thinking and acting. Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is a field with a growing number of different frameworks. Finding a useful framework can help provide a foundation for SEL assessment and improvement efforts. However, having so many frameworks can be confusing, and selecting a framework or combining frameworks can be difficult.

Frameworks

Support SEL Practitioners

The members of the Assessment Work Group responsible for Measuring SEL are preparing a series of briefs on SEL frameworks. These briefs will summarize key issues, describe a specific framework and its source, or explore similarities, differences, and potential alignments among them.

Brief Series

Over the next 20 months, we will work with framework developers to produce a series of briefs centered around the following themes:

Frame

Framing the way we work on SEL

Describe

Descriptions and Ratings of Common SEL Frameworks

Compare

Comparing different frameworks

Learn

Learning about issues in SEL

Our first set of briefs will be announced in December 2017 and will be available here on the Measuring SEL site. Our goal is to help provide concise, easily accessible information about what frameworks are, where to learn more, and how to use them to improve the everyday implementation of SEL. Join the Collaborator Network to learn when new briefs are posted.

Have an idea for a topic these briefs should cover or other resources we should know about? Contact us at blytth008@gmail.com.